Product Description: Arguments about whether distinctive features of American society, culture, political structure, economic system, or population account for the relative weakness of American radicalism have engaged historians, sociologists, and political scientists for decades...read more

Reveals telegrams to prove Soviets spied in the 1930s and 1940s (view table of contents)

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The Amerasia affair was the first great postwar spy case. This book provides a history featuring charges that respectable Amer. citizens had spied for the Communists. In June 1945, 6 people assoc. with the magazine Amerasia were arrested by the FBI & accused of espionage on behalf of the Chinese Communists. Two people were convicted, & that for unauthorized possession of gov't. doc's. Reveals that a cover-up designed to hide a leaking operation to discredit Amer. supporters of Chiang Kai-shek did occur. The refusal of many liberals to believe that the Rosenbergs or Alger Hiss had actually spied was, in part, conditioned by the peculiar circumstances of this case. Photos.

Product Description: Histories of American radical left groups abound. The Communist party, the tiny Trotskyist movement, and the New Left have all been abundantly chronicled. Very little information has been available, however, about the radical left today...read more

Analyzes the growth of the U.S. Communist Party during the Depression of the 1930s and examines the party activities of the decade

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